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Seven Oaks in ruin in the 1960s.

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Richard Campanella’s Streetscapes: Seven Oaks of Nine Mile Point

Inspect a satellite image of greater New Orleans and you will readily see that the landscape of Nine Mile Point, …
Photograph of Streetscapes by Charles L. Franck, courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection.

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Richard Campanella’s Streetscapes: A Dizzying Dive into the Downtown of a Century Ago

One morning in 1922, photographer Charles L. Franck climbed into the rear cockpit of a biplane and had the pilot …
A road sign for Athens and Homer in northwestern Louisiana.

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Richard Campanella’s Streetscapes: Classical Antiquity in Northwestern Louisiana 

Athens. Homer. Sparta. Arcadia. Corinth. Antioch. Mt. Lebanon. Lisbon. Vienna. You can visit all nine of these references to Classical …
Union Terrace as it appeared in the late 1860s, adjacent to Christ Episcopal Church.

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Union Terrace: Adaptive Reuse on 19th-Century Canal Street

Canal Street was a latecomer to the urban geography of New Orleans. Laid out in 1810 within the commons separating …
A map of the Thibodaux-Raceland-Houma region

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On the Origins of Louisiana Cities, Towns, and Villages

Editor’s note: The following is an edited excerpt from Richard Campanella’s latest book, “Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences: Origins of Louisiana …
A 1816 map showing his water-management designs for today's Lower Garden District at left.

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Barthélemy Lafon and the Origins of Stormwater Management in New Orleans’ Lower Garden District (1806)

Sustainable urban water management has been a priority ever since local architect David Waggonner and colleagues brought attention to the …
Back and white headshot of Richard M. Hurd

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ORIGIN OF OUR OWN AXIOMS: The urban research of Richard Hurd 

“AXIOMATIC” — something that is self-evident, so obvious that few would question it — is a curious descriptor because, quite …
Black and white aerial portrait of old Treme in 1922

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An aerial portrait of old Tremé: 1922 photo shows railway station, Tremé Market and more

One day in 1922, a U.S. Army Air Service biplane based out of Montgomery, Ala., wafted through the midsummer skies …
Exterior photo of The Bethlehem Temple prior to its demolition

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A dubious demolition on Dauphine Street

YOU’VE PROBABLY NOTICED IT, a specimen of early-1960s pastiche architecture more befitting of Metairie or Terrytown than the French Quarter. What …
Black and white aerial photo of the New Basin Canal with corresponding numbers

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Before the Pontchartrain Expressway: Last days of the New Basin Canal

“New approaches from the west — Pontchartrain Expressway,” wrote Robert Moses atop a key section in his Arterial Plan for …
Black and white aerial photograph from 1950 showing the route urban planner Robert Moses recommended for the Expressway approach to the Mississippi River Bridge with corresponding numbers.

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Before the Pontchartrain Expressway: a peek at what we lost

“It is our unanimous opinion that this route should follow generally the New Basin Canal…and then continue along a new …
Original design of twin theaters and lawn

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Innovation in Theaters: the Tulane and Crescent

If ever there was a town made for theater, New Orleans fits the playbill. Its populace, historically and today, seems …